Free World

Between the Second World War and Vietnam, the United States experienced an unprecedented flourishing of the arts.

Ranging from Hannah Arendt's Manhattan to the Paris of Sartre and De Beauvoir, this cultural history examines the way European ideas revitalized American culture during these tumultuous decades, and how, even as US military and economic power waned in the 1970s, its literature, movies and popular music came to reign supreme.